About the Project

With funding from Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA), faculty Institute-wide have participated in the evaluation of an important expansion of Medicaid managed care to cover mental health services, including enrollees with disabilities. In collaboration with the Policy and Services Research Data Center (PSRDC), faculty engage in multiple studies that include qualitative implementation analysis, administrative data analysis, and a population-based mail survey of prepaid mental health plans; examination of racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes; and examination of special targeted issues that have yielded important findings for researchers and policy makers in Florida and nationally.

STUDY	STUDY LEAD
Overall Administration	Roger Boothroyd
PSRDC Infrastructure	Charles Dion
Enrollee Satisfaction	Roger Boothroyd
Medicaid Methadone Maintenance Programs	Holly Hills
Managed Care Administrative Data Analysis	Greg Teague
Efficacy of SAPT for Positive Outcomes	Jim Winarski
Evaluation for OOHC Alternatives	Mary Armstrong
Evaluation of CW Prepaid Mental Health Plan	Amy Vargo
Evaluation of Behavioral Health Overlay Services	S. Yampolskaya
Profiles of High SIPP Users	S. Yampolskaya
Alzheimer’s Waiver Evaluation	David Chiriboga
Prescriptions for New NH Residents	Victor Molinari

Principal Investigator	Roger Boothroyd, PhD
Award Amount	$1,767,399
Dates	07/01/2009 - 06/30/2010